That Balls Outta Here » gryphons http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:38:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Wall Street Journal Warns of Chris Young’s Giganticism http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/04/05/wall-street-journal-warns-of-chris-youngs-giganticism/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/04/05/wall-street-journal-warns-of-chris-youngs-giganticism/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:29:16 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=4924 Hey, no one’s going to sit here and type a list of tall-related zingers they came up with last night.  As a guy who once wrote an article for the local paper in high school called “No, I Don’t Play Basketball,” I am very familiar with unfair stereotypes that are assigned to people of a certain height.

“Why aren’t you good at sports?”

“Why are you always running into the ceiling fan?”

“Why don’t you fit inside of cars?”

These are the challenges we face in an unmerciful, relentless society where height is endlessly linked to athleticism.  So a 6′ 10″ guy like tonight’s Mets starter Chris Young, whom the Wall Street Journal says is so tall that he can reach closer to the plate from the mound than anyone else, is basically a traitor to his kind. (more…)

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